> Is there a way to change your avatar into an animated avatar?
No. When you upload an avatar, we resize it internally to ensure that it's 80x80, and the method we use to do that only returns the first frame of an animated image.
> I have seen a … Read More

@deceptikon, please update or allow Michael to upload an animated pic. anything to swap out that horrendous avatar that he currently has that looks like a cross between a Chihuahua and an an Ostrich. lol... Read More

> @deceptikon, please update or allow Michael to upload an animated pic. anything to swap out that horrendous avatar that he currently has that looks like a cross between a Chihuahua and an an Ostrich. lol...
Haha! But seriously...you think that thing would be better animated? O_o Read More

I'm almost 70 and I like animated avatars -- especially the one with a cartoon guy beating his head against the desk with blood spirting all over. Another I though was funny was someone reached through the computer monitor and slapped he hell out of the user.

No. When you upload an avatar, we resize it internally to ensure that it's 80x80, and the method we use to do that only returns the first frame of an animated image.

I have seen a few avatars that are animated... Know how to upload one?

Most likely you've seen avatars that were grandfathered in during the migration from vBulletin to the current system. That would have side steped our upload process, but it doesn't help you now because the only way to get an animated avatar if you didn't already have one would be to edit the database manually.

A resize is always attempted, regardless of the original dimensions. Honestly, I haven't tested whether an 80x80 animated image flows through (ie. the imaging library treats it as a no-op), or if the resize still behaves the same way regardless of original dimensions. What you suggested may be a workaround.

@deceptikon, please update or allow Michael to upload an animated pic. anything to swap out that horrendous avatar that he currently has that looks like a cross between a Chihuahua and an an Ostrich. lol...

@deceptikon, please update or allow Michael to upload an animated pic. anything to swap out that horrendous avatar that he currently has that looks like a cross between a Chihuahua and an an Ostrich. lol...

Haha! But seriously...you think that thing would be better animated? O_o

@deceptikon, please update or allow Michael to upload an animated pic. anything to swap out that horrendous avatar that he currently has that looks like a cross between a Chihuahua and an an Ostrich. lol...

Haha thank you JorgeM :)... I'd personally say an ostrich and a cat.

So anyways, is there a way to animate a .png image? or would it end up failing?

If you read through the thread, you will find that some members that previosuly had animated avatars were preserved/grandfathered when the system was upgraded. That member you referenced is not a new member.

If you read through the thread, you will find that some members that previosuly had animated avatars were preserved/grandfathered when the system was upgraded. That member you referenced is not a new member.

Oh ya sorry, I read this last week, I forgot that. But this is first time I noticed any animated avatar on daniweb.